Figures from Elections Canada indicate the number of Yukoners who voted in the recent advance poll almost doubled from the 2011 federal election.

In the four days of polling, from last Friday to Thanksgiving Monday, 3,013 Yukoners cast ballots.

That represents 11.6 per cent of the 25,941 eligible voters for this federal election.

Four years ago, 1,578 Yukoners voted in three days of advance polling, representing 6.5 per cent to the 24,341 eligible voters back then.

On the 2015 ballot for Monday’s general election are incumbent Conservative Ryan Leef, former Liberal MP Larry Bagnell, NDP candidate Melissa Atkinson and Green Party candidate Frank de Jong.

Polls for Monday’s general election will open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.

In the 2011 election, Leef edged then-incumbent Bagnell by a count of 5,422 votes to 5,290, a difference of 132 votes, or 0.9 per cent of the total number of votes cast.

Green Party candidate John Streicker placed third with 3,037 votes and NDP hopeful Kevin Barr finished fourth with 2,308 votes.

According to the preliminary figures released Wednesday by Elections Canada, some 3.6 million Canadians voted at the advance polls over the four days. The turnout represents a 71 per cent increase from the 2,100,855 advance votes 2011, says Election Canada.

This increase was due in part to an additional advance voting day on Sunday, offered for the first time.

More than 850,000 Canadians voted on Friday and more than 1.2 million on Monday, representing the two busiest days of advance voting ever.

Three national election polls conducted Tuesday by reputable firms show varying results, though each have Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in the lead by four or more percentage points, followed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.

The polls show Thomas Mulcair’s New Democrats trailing in third place by 10 or more percentage points behind the Liberals.